The Evil Dead
85 minutes,
USA (1983), 18
Self-proclaimed as "the ultimate experience in gruelling terror", this was the blood-spurting, flesh-tearing surprise hit of the 1980s that launched Sam Raimi's career and spawned two successful sequels
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The Evil Dead: The Evil Dead spends the first 20 minutes setting up the simple tale of five alarmingly stupid students spending the weekend in an isolated cabin somewhere in the Tennessee woodlands. They discover an old tape recorder in the basement and all sit round to listen to the strange ramblings of a professor who claims to have discovered a 'Book of the Dead'...
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